Alexander Leonowitsch Rotinjan
Alexander Leonovich Rotinjan ( Armenian Ալեքսանդր Լեւոնի Ռոտինյան , Russian Александр Леонович Ротинян * August 13 . Jul / 26. August 1913 . Greg in St. Petersburg ; † 30th March 1991 in Leningrad ) was a Russian - Armenian electric chemist and university lecturer .
Life
Rotinjan, son of the physical chemist Levon Alexandrowitsch Rotinjan , studied chemistry at the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute with graduation in 1935. He then worked as an aspirant at the Leningrad Polytechnic MIKalinin Institute with a doctorate as a candidate in chemical sciences in 1938. During this time he became known for his chess compositions . In 1937 he was expelled from the Soviet Chess Federation because of a publication in the German chess magazine Die Schwalbe .
In 1938 Rotinjan became a lecturer at the chair for physical chemistry at the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute .
During the German-Soviet War Rotinjan served in the Red Army from 1941 to 1945 as a platoon leader of an armored train on the Leningrad Front and as head of a chemical service unit.
In 1945 Rotinjan became the deputy scientific director of the Leningrad Research and Design Institute for Mining Technology "GiproNickel" . In 1952 he received his doctorate in technical sciences . In 1960 he was appointed professor at the Chair of Electrochemistry at the Leningrad Technology Institute, which he then headed from 1969–1986.
Rotinjan was buried in Leningrad in the Komarovo Cemetery.
Works (russian)
- Applied Electrochemistry (1962, 1967, 1974)
- Theoretical Electrochemistry (1981)
- Fundamentals of metallurgy
- Optimization of the chlorine display
Honors
- Medal "Victory over Germany"
- Stalin Prize 2nd class (1950) for the development of a metal extraction technology
- Medal "On the 250th anniversary of Leningrad"
- Order of the Great Patriotic War II Class (April 6, 1985)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Employee of the Department of Technology of Electrochemical Production: ВЫДАЮЩИЙСЯ УЧЕНЫЙ И ПЕДАГОГ . In: Известия Санкт-Петербургского государственного технологического института (технического универскога) . tape 45 , no. 19 , 2013, pp. 117-118 . (accessed on August 17, 2016).
- ↑ А. Ромашова: Научные чтения, посвященные 100-летию со дня рождения проф. А.Л. Ротиняна (accessed August 17, 2016).
- ↑ Создатели Отечественной Гальванотехники (accessed on August 17, 2016).
- ↑ К столетию профессора А.Л. Ротиняна (accessed August 17, 2016).
- ↑ В. Нейштадт: Что ни судьба, то трагедия (часть 5) (accessed August 17, 2016).
- ↑ Chess, Politics Collided In 1930s Russia (accessed August 17, 2016).
- ↑ Ротинян Александр Леонович 1913 (accessed August 17, 2016).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rotinjan, Alexander Leonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ռոտինյան, Ալեքսանդր Լևոնի (Armenian); Ротинян, Александр Леонович (Russian); Rotinian, Alexander Leonowitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Armenian electrochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1991 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |